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This Pride, don’t forget about us

ID: “This Pride remember to respect all trans people : Trans women who don’t shave with a drawing of a woman whit a yellow and pink beard, trans men who don’t bind, masculine trans women and feminine trans men with a drawing of a trans woman with short pink hair wearing a yellow baseball T-shirt holding hands with a trans man with a yellow crop top and short curly blue hair, fat trans people with the drawing of a fat trans woman with short white hair, dark skin and a pink cropped top, disabled trans people with a drawing of a wheelchair and a walking cane in the color of the trans flag, neurodivergent trans people with the symbol of the autistic community, trans people who are sex worker with a drawing of blue bra and pink underwear, poor trans people who can’t afford transition, trans people who aren’t out yet with a drawing of a closed door, trans people who don’t plan on transitioning, black trans people with a black fist holding a trans flag, and any trans people who isn’t white with multiple hands of different skin tones, muslim trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a hijab in the color of the trans flag, jewish trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a white shirt and a kippah in the color of the trans flag, non binary people even those who don’t identify as trans with the non binary flag, those whose identity you might not understand with the genderfluid flag, the agender flag, the demi gender flag and the genderqueer flag, trans people who don’t pass and don’t want to with a drawing of a trans woman with a beard and dark skin raising her fist, every pronouns with dialog box in which are different sets of pronouns, trans people of every identity with the gay flag, the lesbian flag, the ace flag, the bi flag, the pan flag and the aro flag, every trans person is beautiful and deserving of so much love so don’t forget the T.” End ID

First round for the new Community Stuffpack is open

Sorry for the lack of new or new content, but it’s been far too hot in France for a few days to turn on the computer!

Earlier this week, I made a thread on Twitter to share some ideas to improve it. At this point, I don’t think a Guru will reply, but if you want to help, with a retweet (or simply a like) the thread is here.

For now, with no eco-friendly alternative for objects we can’t use without limitations and bad moodlets, I think this lot trait gives a negative vision of this way of living. I hope it can be improved! There are no specific objects designed for the trait, we can only use cheap or rustic looking stuff, but with drawbacks.  

To begin with, it would be nice to add ways to collect water (pump, well,collect rainwater ) or produce a bit of electricity (solar panel, wind turbine).

Our sims could use this water to fill a simple basin (without plumbing) to wash the dishes, or even wash them-self (like the sponge bath from Sims 2). With more water, they could even fill a tub! Dry toilets could be a nice addition too. 

All this would need specific animations, but we could reuse some of the animations already present in the game (for exemple, in this first pic above, I use an animation from the laundry tub, when your sims replace the water)

In the kitchen, instead of a non-functioning fridge, our sims could use a simple closet to stock their food. Canning food would prevent it from spoiling. The firewood stove from the base game should also work without limitations using wood (and have plainer recolors?).

And of course, composting, for our gardeners! 

That’s a lot of ideas that would work well with the Off the Grid trait, too much for an update I guess (maybe in a SP/GP?). I wish some of them had been added in Island Living, since ecology is one of the main themes of pack. Off the Grid was well received during the votes for the community pack, I think it deserves better. 

I didn’t mention the bugs (and there are many of them), as I’m sure they will soon be fixed! 

Thank you for reading this!

If you have other ideas, don’t hesitate to share. And once again, you can like or retweet the thread on twitter.

This is not a safe space for terfs.

unfollow me if you are a transphobic,

i know tumblr doesn’t give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside the “most popular ones” (such as the usa & england). it’s true, don’t lie to me. y’all don’t give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKING  WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you say “pray for x”……

southern europe is burning. 

my country is burning.

people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.

yesterday my country had 300 active fires.

people are losing EVERYTHING they own.

i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense it’s getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.

and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europe… what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we don’t ask for money, we don’t ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awareness… something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish. 

i don’t know what to tell you. i’m angry. i’m frustrated. i’m disappointed. i feel like i’m screaming into the void. “a reblog does nothing” - you know that’s a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. y’all are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit we’ve been winning lately. 

but hell, if the EU doesn’t give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?

again, i don’t know what to tell you so i’ll let the images speak for themselves: 

An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete

Torneros de Jamuz, Spain

Duca, Croatia

A helicopter from Italy’s civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste

Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios

Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.

Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece

Portugal

Every day in southern Europe fires break out because people are careless or, worse, because they start them to turn forests into lots where they can build vacation homes. The heat and wind turn these fires into unstoppable infernos.

If you hear about a fire close to you (could be a few miles away, still is close, especially in a forest), be ready to leave, not to your car, but to the nearest open space, preferably somewhere with water and away from anything that can burn. Staying inside a house (not made of woods obvs) might also be safer than leaving. Don’t underestimate how quickly a fire spreads.